Chapter 2: Collaborative Product Development

Title: The skeleton in the multi-level assembly model for top-down innovation design of mechanical product

Author(s): Xiang Chen, Shuming Gao, Youdong Yang, Shuting Zhang

Address: State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China | State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China | State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China | State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2009 pp. 61 - 72

Abstract/Summary: This paper presents an improved engineering model extended from our previous work to better support top-down product design. The main characteristics of our new model are: a. several vital kinds of engineering data for top-down design are captured effectively b. the top-down design mode is explicitly supported, i.e., a real-embedment of top-down design in CAD system can be achieved based on this model c. as it is platform-independent (here the platform means CAD systems), adaptation from existing CAD systems would not be an obstacle. Finally, we also implement a prototype system to prove the correctness and feasibility of our model’s new abilities, and optimistic results are obtained.

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